François Choquette

François Choquette (born January 3, 1974) is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 2011 election and re-elected in 2015. He served in the 41st and 42nd Canadian Parliaments before losing his seat in 2019. He represented the electoral district of Drummond as a member of the New Democratic Party.

Prior to being elected, Choquette was a teacher. Choquette has a bachelor's degree in secondary education in French and history and a master's degree in literature.

Choquette also ran unsuccessfully in the 2006 federal election, and attempted a non-consecutive comeback in the 2021 election, in Drummond.

After the 2015 election, NDP leader Tom Mulcair appointed Choquette to be the NDP's critic for Official Languages in the 42nd Canadian Parliament. During the 42nd Parliament, Choquette sponsored a private member's bill [http://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/42-1/bill/C-203/first-reading (Bill C-203)] that would require Supreme Court judges to be fluently bilingual in English and French. However, it was defeated with most Liberal and Conservative members voting against the bill. Provided by Wikipedia